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I’ve discovered the joy of knitting baby booties and set out to make a slew of them to send to my sister, so that she can find pregnant people to give them to. I don’t think her cats would be so interested in wearing them…

All lined up for inspection...

I’ve made seven pairs so far and have sent six of those pairs off to my sister. The materials used varied, left over bits from other skeins I’ve long lost the label to, fancy alpaca yarn, silk, and baby acrylic.

My favorite booties were the teeny-tiny alpaca ones I made. Having seen a baby or two since those were made I suspect that those booties would fit only newborn babies or preemies. I wanted very much to keep them for myself, but since I have plenty of yarn left and have found some super-cute buttons I know there will be more to make.

If only you knew just how small my hands are.

For comparison, these pink booties are about the same size. Here is one on top of a standard size post-it note.

Teeny-tiny bootie on a post-it.

There was one pair I didn’t send to my sister. They are the light purple pnes and somehow one of stitches on the wrong-side row was purled instead of knit. That and I think they look a little poorly constructed, so I’ll find someone here to pawn them off on.

I made all the alpaca booties while on the way to and while at Lake Tahoe. That was meant to be a vacation…anyway, that did not go well at all. I’m not going to air it all out here but I can tell you that I still have a wonderful, patient, sweet boyfriend who will run and check on me after I fall down a flight of carpeted stairs and can’t sit down for the next three days. He, however, is related to a person who would shout “Is there something wrong with the stairs?” I will never do a vacation like that again…and I don’t mean the stairs.

Darby stayed with Bill’s mom while we were away. I know Bill’s mom is an awesome person and I don’t even worry when I leave Darby with her, but she was still happy to see me when we got back. Darby slept in my lap the next day, happy to be home.

Darby enjoying the sunlight

Speaking of that trip down the stairs. That happened a week ago and it still hurts to sit and stand and move about. I visited with a Nurse Practitioner yesterday (for a previously scheduled engagement) and she was very blase about it “Well, if you broke it there isn’t anything they can do for it anyway.” Wow, thanks for that info…. Kaiser is being really helpful… and as an aside, they must have gotten rid of their cleaning crew to save money because it was pretty gross in there, especially when it’s supposed to be a medical facility.

Lady Bug Buttons!!!

Okey, so on to something positive. I found these little ladybug buttons and am going to make some more (surprise!) Saartje’s booties in red and black with these little buttons. They should be the most adorable things ever.